everysecondtuesday | Yuletide 2023 (Reply)

Hi! I have previous past letters with longer likes lists that still hold true, so, feel free to peruse my past Fic in a Box letters for generalities or any past letters with applicable fandoms, though please be aware of my current DNWs. Due to time constraints, much of this is copy-pasted from past letters. All of the fandom specific stuff is copy-pasted from my AO3 sign up.

I really do want all of my requests. If one section is longer than another, it's due to how much I had to say or available to copy-paste, not an indication that I want the request more. All of my prompts are just ideas for if you need a place to start; I'd also be really happy with something running with my likes.

I'm open to treats, including art for Wrapping Paper.

For ease of finding me: tuesday.

What I can write and what I want as a gift can differ, so for best results, please rely on my likes and DNWs over what you may find on my AO3 works page.

Likes

DNWs

Requests

Likes

Jump Scare freeform likes (separate post)

Text Likes

I like all ratings for works, from General Audiences to Explicit (though I do not want sexually explicit works for Dwarf Fortress).

I'm open to any length, from just over the minimum to sprawling epics (and under the min for treats).

I like both traditional fic and non-traditional and experimental formats, including interactive fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, epistolary, in universe documents, and multimedia. I like past and present tense. I generally prefer third person (especially consistent third person limited where POV shift only happens in scene breaks or doesn't happen at all) or a match to canon (which in some cases is going to be first (as with ISMM) or second) or a match to the standards of the form (e.g. first person for epistolary, letters, and journals; second person for CYOA and IF).

(I'm open to everything! These are just preferences.)

Art Likes

Go as E- or G-rated as you'd like. I especially like character expressions and things that set mood (color, body language, composition, etc), as well as scenery. I also like details in clothing, jewelry, and hairstyles and hair ribbons and fancy hair pieces where appropriate (e.g. fancy weddings including fancy clothes).

I really enjoy settings, background, and other details, so if you're like, "Oh, no, is this extra detail unwanted?" the answer will always be no, please give it to me. On the flip side, please don't feel like you have to go super in depth to please me. I'm sure I will be happy wherever you end up on the spectrum.

Some non-explicit poses I especially like for ships are characters kissing (on the mouth, the temple, the top of the head, hands, the cheek, etc), holding hands, hugging, carrying each other (princess carry, fireman, piggyback, shoulder rides), dancing, cuddling, and pressing their foreheads together.

For sexually explicit art, feel free to take anything from my smut likes, but for something visual, I especially like bruises and marks, bondage, face touching or holding hands or other visual forms of intimacy and affection while fucking (and also just in general), and hair-petting or pulling.

For longform art like comics, I enjoy action scenes, quieter things like characters solving mysteries, happy slice of life comics for my ships, horror comics (both where we see the horror and where it's always off-screen, ominous and left to the imagination), romantic comedies, and just plain romance. None of that sound interesting? Please peruse my long and varied likes lists!

For art based on live action series, I'm less concerned about the characters looking exactly like the actors and more about them being recognizable/capturing the feeling of the characters. Same for other types of canons, too, really. I'm not the right audience for more abstract works that require the viewer reading into the work or ones that require extrapolation on the viewer's part, as I'll admit I'm terrible at that, but otherwise, if the style you want to use differs from the style of canon, I'd be happy to see what you come up with. For any canon, I'd be happy with whatever your style is, something in the style of canon, or something in the style of another canon if that sounds like fun for you!

General Likes:

AUs that add things to the canon setting (examples are a non-exhaustive list)
- adding magic, cultivation, chakra, or the Force to settings without it
- canon setting but with soulmates
- like canon but sentinels exist
- like canon but with omegaverse
- canon but IN SPACE
- arranged marriages in canons without them
AUs that replace the canon setting with something equivalent (examples are a non-exhaustive list)
- Star Wars AU that replaces magic, chakra, or cultivation with the Force
- superhero AU that replaces magic, chakra, or cultivation with super powers
- Dragon Age fusion
AUs that change the genre while keeping canon mechanics like magic, chakra, the Force, or cultivation (examples are a non-exhaustive list)
- cyberpunk + canon powers
- video game, gamer, and System AUs
- canon as a space opera
canon-divergent AUs (examples are a non-exhaustive list)
- different first meeting
- character doesn't die
- event happens differently
- character has the chance to re-do/relive events
humor
intrigue
magic
mpreg (including het mpreg)
mysteries
political negotiations
plot
time loops
time travel
space
worldbuilding

Horror Likes:

artifacts of doom
body horror
cannibalism (by choice or by necessity; knowing or unknowing)
creeping horror
eldritch horrors
gallows humor
ghosts and ghost stories
mimics and people lures
monkey's paws (literal or metaphorical)
monsters
murder mysteries
non-euclidean geometry and architecture
the setting is out to get you
the undead
There's also my Jump Scare freeform likes (separate post)

Ship Likes:

Alternate first meetings
Firsts (dates, kisses, times)
Gestures of affection and intimacy (physical ones like face touching and cuddling, but also things like feeding your loved ones, giving gifts, being willing to be emotionally vulnerable with this one person, and other non-physical things)
Mutual pining
Soulmates and/or soul bonds
There was only one bed
Undercover as a couple

Smut Likes:

all things vanilla
anal with men on the receiving end (m/m, f->m; but not m->f or f/f)
bathing together (also bathing each other)
biting
bondage/restraint (especially silk rope, ties or other things being repurposed, honor bondage)
bruising
desperate sex
emotional sex/emotions during sex
first times (together or ever)
frottage
gentleness
hickeys
kneeling
laughter/joking around/banter during sex
manhandling
masochism
multiple orgasms
oral sex
overstimulation
tenderness
trust

DNWS

General DNWs:

Graphic descriptions of eye trauma. (References to past eye trauma or non-descriptive eye loss are fine.)
Comas, covid, and unrequested real life serious illness.
Pet death. (For Dwarf Fortress, please keep bonded pets safe. Everything and everyone else can be in danger.)
Gender-related dysphoria.
Pregnancy of trans men. (Other mpreg welcome.)
Dubcon, noncon or rape play. Sexual harassment or menacing.
Traumatic sex or sex-related trauma.
Memory issues related to sex.
Infidelity.
Focus on unrequited love. (For Dwarf Fortress, this is fine.)
Underage (under 18) sex. (References to teenagers being sexually active in teenager-typical ways is fine, but I'd rather not get explicit sex scenes.)
Adult/currently-a-minor relationships.
The spelling "cum" (as opposed to "come").
Anal tearing or bleeding.
Women on the receiving end of anal.
Contract or 24/7 BDSM or use of the word "master."
Painplay as a punishment or unintended and/or unwelcome sexual arousal from a punishment or torture.
Mommy/daddy kink.
Sexual material going into a public bath (e.g. semen in a public onsen).

Dwarf Fortress DNWs:

Pet-type animals dying by direct dwarf action. (So no cats as domesticated meat animals, but kitten bombs or a cat army to try to defeat forgotten beasts are fine.)
On-screen explicit sex for Dwarf Fortress.

House of Leaves DNWs:

Focus on the things that did/might have happened to Johnny's mother.
Child death (including OCs) or non-canon character death of canon characters.

RED (Movies) DNWs:

Permanent non-canonical character death of named RED characters. (If they didn't die in canon, don't permanently kill them off in your work. Temporary character death in time travel, time loops, or other tropes that allow for temporarily killing a character are fine so long as the characters are alive again by the end of the fic. I am also fine with Victoria as a permanent ghost who sticks around for a ghost/human ship fic ghost love story, but please not for gen fic.)
Unrequested Victoria or Han Cho Bai ships. (An extremely brief reference to Victoria/Ivan is fine, but I do not want it to feature. I do not want a work that focuses on or features any Victoria or Han Cho Bai ship unless it's Victoria/Han Cho Bai, even if it's a past relationship.)

DNW Clarifications and Explications:

Comas and unrequested real life serious illness: Weird confined to canon stuff like Without a Cure, qi deviations, or chakra exhaustion are fine. Cancer is not.

Gender-related dysphoria: Dysphoria unrelated to gender is fine. I'm good with body horror, but if someone transmigrates into an AFAB body from an AMAB one or vice versa (or something else where gender dysphoria can crop up), I don't want descriptions of their discomfort with their new chest or genitalia or signs that their gender identity is a reason this experience is distressing for them. Discomfort over things like the body being the wrong height or the arms being shorter or other things that could be the same whether male or female are fine. "This is weird, but I'm rolling with it" is fine. "I have breasts now and I'm actively distraught over it" is not a good fit for a gift for me.

Trans characters existing without any reference to them experiencing dysphoria is fine (as are references to binding, tucking, and other things that I have room to read as to do with presentation alone).

I'm fine with pregnancy experienced as body horror in mpreg, but in that case, please still avoid active distress over developing breast tissue/anything in the chest area, and please heed the pregnancy of trans men DNW.

Pregnancy of trans men: To be as clear as possible, this DNW is for pregnancy of people who were assigned female at birth but identify as men. So long as my other DNWs are followed, I'm fine with things like people changing around their own body, including their reproductive systems, with magic or by other means to try to make mpreg possible; trans women or nonbinary people getting pregnant; or male transmigrators getting pregnant (whether it's because they fell into an omegaverse world, men can just get pregnant in this world, or they ended up in a female body (in which in this one case, yes, you can mpreg a newly trans man, though please heed the gender-related dysphoria DNW)).

Dubcon, noncon, rapeplay. Sexual harassment or menacing: In the past, I've been fine with (and liked) a lot of dubcon, but I currently don't want any. In the case of anything that could be taken in a dub- or noncon direction, I want the consensual version only.

Memory issues related to sex: Memory issues unrelated to sex are fine.

Infidelity etc.: Poly is fine. I don't want anyone confused on the fact that it is poly, not cheating.

In general, my major concern is to avoid a) definitely cheating in any direction, b) something in which one part of the ship thinks the other part is in a closed relationship and that's what the main ship is engaging in, c) something in which one half of a closed relationship believes the other is cheating on them and we the audience are likely to also think that's what's going on and which comprises a major, ongoing part of the work as opposed to something brief and mistaken.

References to canon infidelity are fine.

Focus on unrequited love: For pining for requested ships, characters can think it is unrequited, but I would like them to be wrong. References to things as they stand at whatever point in canon are fine in canons where unrequited love comes up, but I'd rather not get a fic entirely about a character being sad that their love is a one way street and ending up alone unless explicitly requested.

Underage (under 18) sex: References to teenagers being sexually active in teenager-typical ways is fine, but I'd rather not get explicit sex scenes.

Adult/currently-a-minor relationships: Aging up so everyone is over 18 is fine. Relationships between two people roughly the same age is fine, like a 17 and 19 year old. References to minors having unrequited crushes on adults is fine (though in that case, again, I'd rather not have that unrequited crush be a major focus). For scenarios in which two adults knew each other when one was a minor, I'd prefer not to have direct references to the possibility that anything could've happened then, even if it's to emphasize that the younger adult is an adult now.

Anal tearing or bleeding: Dry sex and using things that aren't lube as lubricant (e.g. semen or spit) going by porn logic is fine so long as there's no damage from it.

Women on the receiving end of anal: If women are having anal sex, I want them to be on the giving end only (so f->m pegging is fine).

Contract or 24/7 BDSM or use of the word "master" in a sexual context: Mentioning this because I have a lot of BDSM-related or adjacent likes. It wouldn't ruin my night or fic, but I'm not super into the formalized contract thing or it being the focus of a relationship/what the relationship is primarily about, and I don't want to accidentally set any traps for my author. I'm fine with and enjoy non-formalized play, with people having fun with pain, bondage, some power dynamics (e.g. characters addressing each other by title), etc.

Painplay as a punishment or unintended and/or unwelcome sexual arousal from a punishment or torture: If someone's getting spanked, I want it to be because they want it. If someone's getting tortured, I don't want it to be sexual.

Requests Copy-Pasted from AO3

Dwarf Fortress

Any

(Nominated characters are Forgotten Beast (Dwarf Fortress), Necromancer (Dwarf Fortress), Overseer (Dwarf Fortress), Worldbuilding (Dwarf Fortress).)

I love this fandom. Whether you want to focus on one of the characters nominated or to use something or someone else as a means of worldbuilding, I'm sure I'll be excited to see what you come up with. Want to write a story based on one of your games? A particular mechanic you love? Something diving into the sorts of worlds DF creates? A bit of history generated in one of your world states? Something else? I'm 100% here for it.

I want to emphasize that while I'd love gen for this fandom, I'd also be happy with ships between any sentient humanoid characters for DF, including original characters.

Please check out some past Dwarf Fortress letters for a variety of prompts if you aren't feeling any of my likes.

Do Not Wants and Likes above at the beginning/middle of the letter.

RED (Movies)

Victoria Winslow
Han Cho Bai

I absolutely ship this, so if you do, too, I'd love ship fic. If you would prefer to write gen, I'd also enjoy something canon-typical with both of them, as I love both characters separately and together. I would like both characters featured in whatever work I receive.

Prompts stolen from Yuletides past that I would still love to see:

Something gen: I'd love to see Han and Victoria (feel free to include other characters from the rest of the gang, if you'd like?) going on adventures, getting together to save the world, or even just attending some sort of RED reunion (which Han crashes for Reasons). Any sort of spy equivalent to case fic would make me clap my hands with glee.

Something shippy: The above, plus Han/Victoria. They have to go undercover as a couple for plot reasons! (Han surprises himself with how much he enjoys playing boy-toy to Victoria's rich older lady. Victoria, meanwhile, is not surprised at all by how much she enjoys it all.) Han does not so much crash the reunion as show up as Victoria's plus one. They save the world and then they kiss.

Something dark: GHOST LOVE STORY. The only acceptable way to kill these characters: Victoria dies and haunts Han, giving him advice, even when he doesn't want it, critiquing his form and methods, drinking scotch and laughing at his few mishaps. And then they kiss.

Something explicit: Victoria helps Han break in his new plane. Alternately: car sex.

Do Not Wants and Likes above at the beginning/middle of the letter.

House of Leaves

The House on Ash Tree Lane

My favorite part of the novel was the house. I would be delighted with fic focused only on the house, with no metafiction, or with some sort of metafiction so long as the house remains a major focus, too. I'd be happy with both events happening as in canon or AUs.

Some optional prompts I would enjoy:

Maybe The Navidson Record exists and there's controversy over the people who are convinced it's a documentary and those who believe it's just a horror movie.
Maybe a new family moves into the house!
Maybe someone else finds Zampanò's manuscript, but the events within the book have changed! Maybe something with Zampanò writing the manuscript! Maybe something else entirely!
I'd love to see more exploration of the house itself
Something from the house's point of view if it's sentient
Someone getting lost in the house
Tom surviving and wandering the house's labyrinth hopelessly lost
Or, well, pretty much anything house-related.

Feel free to bring in whatever canon characters you please or however many original characters you wish. I'm excited for it all! I would be pleased with any level of happy ending to hopeless despair.

Do Not Wants and Likes above at the beginning/middle of the letter. Feel free to pull things in from my other horror likes or the link to Jump Scare freeforms!

Thanks for reading, and I hope you have a great Yuletide!